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    Henrietta Lacks Web Quest Bio 2015

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    Henrietta Lacks was a 30-year-old African American tobacco farmer who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a sample of her tumor without her consent, which they used to cultivate the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Though Henrietta passed away shortly after, her cells continued growing and dividing rapidly in labs across the world. Today, over 70 years later, HeLa cells are still alive and have been vital to many medical advances, including the development of the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, and IVF treatments. However, Henrietta's family did not find out about her immortal cells for decades and struggled financially without compensation from

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    Henrietta Lacks was a 30-year-old African American tobacco farmer who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a sample of her tumor without her consent, which they used to cultivate the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Though Henrietta passed away shortly after, her cells continued growing and dividing rapidly in labs across the world. Today, over 70 years later, HeLa cells are still alive and have been vital to many medical advances, including the development of the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, and IVF treatments. However, Henrietta's family did not find out about her immortal cells for decades and struggled financially without compensation from

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    Henrietta Lacks was a 30-year-old African American tobacco farmer who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a sample of her tumor without her consent, which they used to cultivate the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Though Henrietta passed away shortly after, her cells continued growing and dividing rapidly in labs across the world. Today, over 70 years later, HeLa cells are still alive and have been vital to many medical advances, including the development of the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, and IVF treatments. However, Henrietta's family did not find out about her immortal cells for decades and struggled financially without compensation from

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    Henrietta Lacks Web Quest Bio 2015

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    Henrietta Lacks was a 30-year-old African American tobacco farmer who was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 1951. Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took a sample of her tumor without her consent, which they used to cultivate the first immortal human cell line known as HeLa cells. Though Henrietta passed away shortly after, her cells continued growing and dividing rapidly in labs across the world. Today, over 70 years later, HeLa cells are still alive and have been vital to many medical advances, including the development of the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, cloning, gene mapping, and IVF treatments. However, Henrietta's family did not find out about her immortal cells for decades and struggled financially without compensation from

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    Name :________________________________________ Living Environment

    THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS WEBQUEST

    A descendent of freed slaves, Henrietta Lacks was an African American tobacco


    farmer who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins
    took a piece of her tumor and put it in a test tube without her consent or
    knowledge and, although she died 8 months later, her cells-known worldwide
    as HeLa cells-are still alive today. This is her story…

    YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Complete the following webquest.

    A. ACTIVITY 1

    Watch the first 10 minutes of the documentary “Way of All Flesh” about Henrietta Lacks:

    http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-way-of-all-flesh/

    How old are Henrietta Lacks’ cells now, as of 2015? _______________________

    What race(s) were Henrietta’s great grandmother and great grandfather? __________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________

    What did Dr. Gey feed cancer cells to try to keep them alive? _____________________________

    What happened when Mary Kubicek plated out Henrietta’s tumor cells that was unusual? _____

    ______________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________

    Why did Dr. Grey give HeLa cells a code name? _________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________
    Name :________________________________________ Living Environment
    B. ACTIVITY 2
    Go to the Wikipedia page about Henrietta Lacks:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks

    7. Why did Henrietta Lacks have no choice but to go to Johns Hopkins hospital? _________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    8. Henrietta Lack’s grave was unmarked for years, but in 2010, who provided a headstone for her and
    what inspired him to do so? ____________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    9. Finish this line from her headstone: “Her immortal cells… _________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    C. ACTIVITY 3
    Read this interview with Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Henrietta-Lacks-Immortal-Cells.html

    10. Henrietta’s husband got a call that he interpreted as “We’ve got your wife. She’s alive in a
    laboratory. We’ve been doing research on her for the last 25 years. And now we have to test your kids
    to see if they have cancer.” What was the real purpose of the call? _____________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    11. Henrietta’s family lived in poverty and many couldn’t afford health insurance. What did her brothers
    do when they found out that HeLa cells were being bought and sold? ___________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________
    Name :________________________________________ Living Environment
    D. ACTIVITY 4
    Read the front page of this website:
    http://henriettalacksfoundation.org/

    12. What is the purpose of the foundation and what have they accomplished so far? _____________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    E. ACTIVITY 5
    Watch the first minute of this bioethicist interview about Henrietta Lacks:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YrY9f0Y

    13. Was it illegal for doctors to take cells from Henrietta without her consent? Was it right to take
    them?

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    H. ACTIVITY 8
    Check out this infographic at:

    http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/st_henrietta

    17. Approximately how many scientific papers do HeLa cells appear in? _________________________

    18. In what year did a Yale researcher publish a discovery that cancerous HeLa cells contain an enzyme
    that prevents cells from dying, i.e., makes them immortal? ____________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    19. Do cancer cells grow faster or slower in space? _________________________________________

    ___________________________________________________________________________________

    20. How did HeLa cells make it possible to diagnose trisomies like Down syndrome? ______________
    Name :________________________________________ Living Environment
    ___________________________________________________________________________________

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